Thursday, January 29, 2009

The $380m Scam Lawyer Argues for Bail

What is the best thing about being a prominent lawyer in the society? You can fraud people for millions of dollars and still argue for a bail though they have good evidences against you.

It is what Marc Drier did. He was a well-known lawyer of New York City. He had a big and reputed office with around 200 lawyers working in it. He somehow got a chance to do one of the well-known Ponzi Schemes and it was so successful that to got him revenues worth $380 million. And finally people caught him and thus he was convicted under fraud case in Manhattan.

He was seen arguing to be given a bail. And the argument he used for that is so simple (or silly) that I don’t know whether to consider it as an argument of a great lawyer or an argument of a school-boy. It said that he can be given a bail because he doesn’t have much relation with any foreign people and thus he has no opportunity to flee from the country.